Temple indicates the side of the Head (anatomy)behind the Human eye. The bone beneath is the Temporal bone as well as part of the Sphenoid bone.

Cladist classify land Vertebrate based on the presence of an Euryapsid Synapsid Diapsid or Anapsid in the cover of Dermal bone that formerly covered the Temporalis muscle whose origin is the temple and whose insertion is the Jaw. The brain has a lobe called the Temporal lobe.

The word “temple” as used in anatomy has a separate etymology from the word temple meaning “place of worship”. Both come from Latin but the word for the place of worship comes from templum whereas the word for the part of the head comes from Vulgar Latin tempula modified from tempora plural form (“both temples”) of tempus a word that meant both “time” and the part of the head. Due to the common source with the word for Time the adjective for both is temporal (both “pertaining to time” and “pertaining to the anatomical temple”).